[Joker_vD]

Like, a linker, with "objcopy --strip-symbols" run as the post-step? I believe you can do this even today.

[dzaima]

--localize-hidden seems to be more what I was thinking of. So this works:

    ld --relocatable --whole-archive crappy-regular-static-archive.a -o merged.o
    objcopy --localize-hidden merged.o merged.o

This should (?) then solve most issues in the article, except that including the same library twice still results in an error.